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Re: [Mit-talk] Separating threads: Student Committee

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Mon Jul 10 16:36:44 2006

Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 16:36:21 -0400
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@mit.edu>
To: mit-talk@mit.edu
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Jenn D'Ascoli <jdascoli@MIT.EDU> wrote on Mon, 10 Jul 2006
at 16:30:52 -0400 in <Pine.GSO.4.62L.0607101626580.3919@mint-square.mit.edu>:

> >I really think that many parts of student government could benefit
> >by having dedicated staff to deal with minutes.
...
> "It is the Secretary General's responsibility to enable the free flow 
...
> ....so, dealing with the minutes? that should be the secretary. possibly 

I certainly agree that these things fall to particular people. But when
those people aren't doing it, you have to think about ways to sovle the
problem. Minutes have been a terrible problem for student government
for a long time (I can't remember *ever* having been satisfied), and
in my opinion, if there was dedicated staff that solved the problem,
it would be money well-spent. 


Jacob Faber <faber@alum.mit.edu> wrote on Mon, 10 Jul 2006 at 16:32:03
-0400 in
<e9cc53d60607101332j4d94c9afge2f5a5c63efd4f7c@mail.gmail.com>:

> Getting minutes out (and increasing transparency in general) is very
> important.  Are you saying that minutes were not distributed or the
> minutes that were distributed were sub par?  Both are important issues
> and I just want to know which you're talking about (if not both).

I thought I was clear. Minutes not distributed. ("The UA senate, on
the other hand, has no updates since April 19th..., and is still
missing several meetings from prior to that.").

I think this sort of question need not be covered on the mailing list,
however, and it would be nice to reduce the traffic somewhat.

--jhawk
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